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ListProc Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA8757
Release Date: 2003-05-12
Popularity: 4,658 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:ListProc 8.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in ListProc, which can be exploited by local users to escalate privileges.

The problem is that the "ULISTPROC_UMASK" environment variable isn't verified in the "catmail" helper application, which is installed setuid root. This allows malicious users to cause a buffer overflow, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Exploit code has been released.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 8.2.09.

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